The first month of school, thirteen-year-old Anna Collette finds herself… Dumped by her best friend, Dani, who suddenly wants to spend eighth grade “hanging out with different people.” Deserted by her mom, who’s in the hospital recovering from a suicide attempt. Trapped in a house with her dad, a new baby sister, and a stepmother young enough to wear her Delta Delta Delta sweatshirt with pride. Stuck at a lunch table with Shawna the Eyebrow Plucker and Sarabeth the Irish Stepper because she has no one else to sit with. But what if all isn’t lost? What if Anna’s mom didn’t exactly mean to leave her? What if Anna’s stepmother is cooler than she thought? What if the misfit lunch table isn’t such a bad fit after all? With help from some unlikely sources, including a crazy girl-band talent show act, Anna just may find herself on the road to okay.
Where You'll Find Me -
Natasha Friend
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
2016
272 páginas
9h 4m
ISBN-10: 0374302308
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Natasha Friend
Hi! I’m Natasha. I became a writer in great thanks to my parents, who raised me in a house without a TV. At the time, I thought this was the worst form of torture. Now I understand the method to their madness: they wanted me to be a reader. I spent much of my childhood in the Hamilton Public Library in upstate New York, where I found my mecca, the young-adult section, and my idol, Judy Blume. Not long after discovering Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, I began dictating stories to my father, who typed them up on his 1930’s Remington typewriter. Most involved rainbows, unicorns, and poor orphan girls discovering treasure. I knew I was supposed to be a real writer in seventh grade, when a sweet boy wrote me a love poem and I felt compelled to correct it for syntax and rhyme scheme. (No, I did not grade it, and I did not hand it back to him. I kept it, and I treasure it still.) Because my spiritual age is 13, I was a middle-school teacher for a while. Then I was a camp director. I decided to give full-time writing a shot after I got married because I knew I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. My first book, Perfect, was published right after my first baby arrived. I wrote a second book. I had another baby. Wrote two more books, had another baby. Now, three kids and seven books later, I feel like I’m just hitting my stride. I love being a writing mom. When I’m not working on my latest book, I’m building forts and making chocolate-chip pancakes. Often, I am wearing a silly hat. Sometimes a press-on mustache. I sing a lot. I read voraciously. I eat peanut butter and banana sandwiches for breakfast. I like a clean house, but I am a horrible housekeeper. I would rather be having a spontaneous talent show in my dirty kitchen. Or writing another book. xo, NF
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